“Russia Represents National Sovereignty” – George Galloway 🇬🇧 | RT Talks Victory Day Parade 🇷🇺

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In an exclusive RT interview, former British MP George Galloway 🇬🇧 explains why leaders of free countries attended Moscow’s Victory Day Parade 🇷🇺.
Galloway emphasizes that Russia’s role in defending national sovereignty resonates globally 🌍, making this parade a symbol of resistance against foreign interference ✊.
A powerful message of unity and pride on the world stage 🌐💥.

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Transcript

00:00George Galloway, veteran British MP.

00:05Mr Galloway, you're just getting suited up there.

00:07I'm sure you can hear us.

00:09It's Saskia and Newton here from the other side of the river.

00:13You've been watching it all in Red Square, sir.

00:15How did you find it?

00:17Overwhelming, emotional, powerful, impressive, everything.

00:22I shed a tear, let me say that.

00:25It was an existential moment, the Second World War.

00:31To be or not to be was the question.

00:35And it was answered in the affirmative by the Red Army, by the USSR,

00:42more than by anybody else, indeed more than by everybody else put together.

00:47And that was represented here on Red Square.

00:51And it's just such a shame.

00:55That the Great Wartime Alliance was not here present on the square.

01:02No president of the United States, no prime minister of the United Kingdom.

01:08That it was left to me, I think, the only political representative in Britain who was here.

01:16But I was representing the views and feelings of millions of people.

01:22You shouldn't confuse the poisonous words of EU leaders and the British Prime Minister

01:31for the countries that they represent.

01:34All over Europe and certainly all over the United Kingdom, millions of people recognize and cherish and salute

01:44the role of the Russian people and the people of the Soviet Union in the Second World War.

01:51If not for them, we'd be speaking, you and I, in German, except we would not be because we'd be in a concentration camp somewhere.

02:01George, I also want to ask you sort of on a more, I suppose you could say, emotional level.

02:11This is obviously a world of tumult.

02:14It's a world of huge change.

02:16Values are changing.

02:18And I think people feel a bit lost.

02:20Do events like this help ground nations?

02:24I really feel that I felt the patriotism from foreigners, from me, from others, people who love Russia,

02:37who are not even Russian, but who recognize the significance of this country.

02:43The land of Tchaikovsky, the land of Puskin, the land of Dostoevsky, the land of the Bolshoi, the land of the T-34 of the Soviet Red Army.

02:57This is a magnificent world historic country.

03:04And the more they try to freeze Russia out of the world, the taller Russia stands.

03:12And in the eyes and in the minds of free people everywhere.

03:16I mean, why was Captain Ibrahim Traore here today?

03:21He represents the hope of all Africa.

03:25All Africans are now looking to the captain.

03:28He is the iconic African leader.

03:31He was here.

03:32The leader of China was here.

03:34The leaders of the free countries of the earth who wish sovereignty for their own people are here because Russia represents national sovereignty.

03:47And ideas of faith, of God, of family, of country.

03:53These ideas are largely lost in the Western world amongst the political class and their media orchestra.

04:02But they still exist here.

04:05And this is the new Rome for me.

04:08The fact that we didn't see Western leaders come over, George, in like they used to do here, stand shoulder to shoulder with the people, with their allies who defeated Nazism in Europe.

04:30I get the feeling this year around that Russia doesn't really care because they're looking to the global south.

04:37They're looking to other nations and saying, you're the future.

04:41And we're not going to politicize this event by by grandstanding what Europe is not doing.

04:47We're looking to other parts of the world.

04:49Yes, I think that's right.

04:51But as a person who was a member of the British Parliament over five decades, from the 1980s until last year, I'm really bitter that our country was not only not represented here,

05:09but was excluding Russia from commemorations, celebrations at every level, and was spitting on this parade.

05:20I'm really bitter about it.

05:21I mean, I should just be sad, but actually I'm sad and bitter about it.

05:27But the rest of the world was here.

05:29The majority of the population of the Earth, of humanity, was either here or their hearts were here.

05:40Their eyes were on here.

05:43And that's ultimately, I suppose, what matters.

05:45The Western European countries are dooming themselves to irrelevance by their churlish, insulting, contemptuous attitude towards this 80th commemoration of the great victory.

06:00Well, George Galloway, British MP, politician, of course, giving us his thoughts.

06:12One of the few, of course, who get the invitation to stand on those historic cobblestones for that hour and a bit and see this year what feels like history really in the making.